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According to a Savills report published on May 15, luxury store openings worldwide fell by 13% in 2023. 41% took place in China, where the number of new luxury stores nevertheless fell by 12%...

16 May 2024

Is VF Corp about to sell Supreme high-end brand?

Less than 4 years after a US$2.1 billion takeover by VF Corp, luxury fashion brand Supreme could once again be under new ownership. Two months after opening in China with a 1st store, Supreme...

15 May 2024

Facing theft issues, Target, Walmart and Dollar General reduce access to self-checkout

In the U.S.A., retailers are reviewing their self-checkout practices. Here's a look at the measures recently introduced by Target, Walmart, Dollar General and Five Below to counter the problem of...

15 May 2024

Following Microsoft, Amazon invests US$9 billion in Singapore

On May 7, 2024, Amazon announced a major investment into AWS. Following Microsoft, which last week unveiled a US$4 billion investment in cloud computing and AI infrastructures in Malaysia and...

10 May 2024

Walmart invests massively in private label offering

After announcing the closure of the health center business, Walmart is investing in a major overhaul of private labels. It aims to enhance loyalty of high-income households, in order to compensate...

7 May 2024

Wayfair bets on omnichannel with a first U.S. flagship

Despite an 8.4% decline of the U.S. furniture market in 2023, Wayfair‘s annual sales remained stable in the U.S. domestic market, growing by 0.2% to US$10.4 billion. The DNVB, whose market...

7 May 2024

[Case study] With Hanshow, Leroy Merlin cuts picking time by 17% for 2-hour pick-up

On February 28, at EuroCIS, Leroy Merlin and Hanshow received the Reta Awards 2024 for best in-store retail solution and best supplier respectively. mind Retail reports on the deployment of...

2 May 2024

In Europe, fractional payments are becoming the norm

The context44% of Europeans use BNPL (Buy Now Pay Later) at least from time to time, according to a study carried out by Kantar for Floa in December 2023 in France, Germany, Italy, Portugal...

2 May 2024

Thanks to the push of lockers, Vinted turned profitable in 2023

For the first time in 15 years, Lithuanian second-hand platform Vinted became profitable in 2023. This is due to the spread of the Vinted Go lockers, whose footprint soared by 230% in 6 months in...

30 April 2024

[Inflation barometer] Eurozone: FMCG prices rose in 2023 and remain 2 times higher than in the USA

The year 2023 was a brutal one for the retail sector, with consumers having no choice but to consume differently. In the USA, and even more so in Europe, inflation remained high, prompting...

30 April 2024

LVMH fund takes control of Kiko Milano

L-Catterton Management (US$35 billion in assets under management, including A.P.C., Ganni, Birkenstock…) announced on April 26, 2024, that it was taking a majority stake in Kiko Milano...

29 April 2024

How Ingka increased staff retention by 5 points in 16 months

In 2023, according to OC&C, staff turnover reached 56% for specialty retailers and 69% in food, with significant differences between store types and age groups. But at Ingka Group, HR team...

26 April 2024

Right to repair: Brussels adopts a directive to promote circularity

On April 23, 3 years after the AGEC law in France and in the wake of the CSRD, the European Parliament adopted the directive on the “right to repair“. The objective and products are...

26 April 2024

Israeli-Palestinian conflict: is companies’ neutrality a solution?

In 2024, along with McDonald‘s in Israel, and the Alshaya Group (owner of Starbucks franchises in the process of reducing 2,000 staff), international franchises in the Middle East are...

26 April 2024

Department stores: How Myer went from 7% to 20.5% of online sales

On April 17, 2024, department store chain Myer (sales of US$2.2 billion in the year to end-July 2023, up by 12.5%, via 56 stores) presented the results of rationalisation. Launched in 2019 by...

25 April 2024

Dubai: Spinneys targets an I.P.O. valuation of US$1.5 billion

On April 23, 2024, supermarket group Spinneys 1961 Holding (70 stores in the U.A.E. and Oman, a subsidiary of Al Seer) opened subscription of 9,000 shares in preparation for an I.P.O. on the Dubai...

25 April 2024

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Hugues Chanoine (Hygie31 Digital): “The next step is to eliminate filters to move to 100% conversational search”

The Hygie31 retail group, known for the Lafayette Pharmacies, is continuing to transform its websites, driven by Cocooncenter. Thanks to an AI strategy and a fully redesigned IT architecture, it...

10 September 2026

ChatGPT: Bureau Vallée’s recipe to capture back-to-school spending

By launching a conversational chatbot with Algolia and a new module converting school lists into e-commerce carts this summer, Bureau Vallée aims to ease the chore of back-to-school supply list...

10 September 2026

Fnac Darty to launch Wero on its e-commerce sites

According to our information, Fnac Darty is about to deploy European payment solution Wero, based on account-to-account instant transfers, on its e-commerce sites. Already active in Germany at...

4 September 2026

Why Shein emits twice as much CO2 as Inditex for equivalent revenue

On the occasion of an IPO, Shein revealed a carbon footprint of 25.5 million tonnes of carbon dioxide in 2025, up by 20% compared to a reference year. For an equivalent sales level, the fast...

3 September 2026

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In the USA, the Federal Trade Commission has just required full transparency on the use of pricing algorithms based on personal data, under threat of penalties. In this regulatory framework...

21 August 2026

From ChatGPT Ads to Amazon Alexa for Shopping: advertising in LLMs scales up in Europe

This summer, OpenAI successively rolled out its ChatGPT Ads platform in the UK and in 30 European countries. From formats used, CPM levels notably for FMCG products and the new role of GEO...

27 August 2026

With Claudeforce, Salesforce opens data to Anthropic and shifts into the conversational AI era

With the announcement of deep integration of the Claude LLM within the Salesforce ecosystem via MCP servers, SaaS software interfaces are fading in favour of AI agents. According to...

9 September 2026

Retail media & LLMs: navigating intent-driven and custom experiences

From store aisles to ChatGPT Ads placements, retail media is shifting away from traditional slots, formats and keywords toward intent-based targeting. Driven by lower access costs to LLMs, full...

31 August 2026

Facing SharkNinja’s hegemony, Carrefour and Darty gain ground on TikTok Shop

While Sephora follows in Ulta's footsteps on TikTok Shop in the US, mind Retail analyzed sellers performance in Q2 2026. Based on exclusive data from Lengow and Kalodata, this European market...

7 September 2026

Fnac Darty to launch Wero on its e-commerce sites

According to our information, Fnac Darty is about to deploy European payment solution Wero, based on account-to-account instant transfers, on its e-commerce sites. Already active in Germany at...

4 September 2026